James Hillman

“אנחנו, בני האדם, הננו קודם כול פעולות של דמיון, דימויים.”

“הפעילות הבסיסית של הנפש היא לדמיין.”

“I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.”

“The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.”

“We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.”

“The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.”

“I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.”

“We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.”

“We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.”

“Psychology ideally means giving soul to language and finding language for soul.”

“Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.”

“I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.”

“We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.”

“You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.”

“Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.”

“Fear is a huge thing for older people.”

“Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.”

“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”

“The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.”

“The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.”